Mount Diablo High School - Diablo Yearbook (Concord, CA)

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Big plans for more district schools are shaped under the finger tips of Dr. Ferd Kiesel. assistant superin- tendent; Mr. Owen Cook, business manager; and Mr. James W. Dent, superintendent, Mt. Diablo Unified District. MR. MARTIN OLAVARRI MR. PETE KRAMER MR. JOHN CLEARY Head Counselor Dean of Boys Principal who is always wilhnq to give a and MRS. 1RMGARD COX has capably led the school helping hand, assists Richard Dean of Girls through its fiftieth year. Johnson and a pal with their seem to enjoy the game with all programs. the trimmings as much as their wards do. The Administrators. 1951 It may have taken the district forty-eight years to change the word union” to unified, but it was a matter of months only before the original school building was changed into a Pentagon for the administrators. Mr. James Dent, superintendent of the Mt. Diablo Unified School District, now carries the planning load along with Dr. Ferd Kiesel, assistant superintendent, and Mr. Ov en Cook, business administrator, for the whole district. Mr. John Cleary, principal, came to us as vice-principal in 1948 under Mr. Dent. After one year's service in assisting the principal, he packed up his files and moved into the inner office to take over his present duties as principal. Mr. Martin Olavarri, head counselor, took over Mr. Cleary's old office in 1949, and has the problem of programing and counseling the 1500-odd students now in attendance at Diablo. Across The Tunnel lie the offices of the deans, Mr. Pete Kramer, with twenty-five years' service to our school, as dean of boys; and Mrs. Irmgard Cox as dean of girls. There is another office in old room 12 now, that of Mis. Adele Hodge. Here attendance records are kept and filed. Age cannot wither — the old building. 5

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DEDICATION There is an old tale of a wandering juggler who sought refuge in a monastery from the winter's unkindness. He tried to follow the Brothers in their devotions. Vainly he attempted to make the proper obeisance to the Holy Virgin, but he was an unlearned man. His ignorance was a wound upon his mind. One day in agony he took the tools of his trade into the empty chapel. He spread his thread- worn rug at the feet of the Virgin, and juggled for her. For a very long time he juggled ... At last he found peace in his heart. Then a miracle occurred. The Virgin descended from her pedestal and wiped the sweat from his brow. May the miracle of understanding descend upon us if, in our attempt to pay homage to Diablo's unselfish men and women of the past, our tools seem slight and irreverent. We wish sincerely to dedicate this Diablo 1951 to every one who, in our fifty years of growing, has had a hand in fashioning this school of today.

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SECRETARIES Lcll to Right: Eunice Matheson. Lois Hardy. E a Senger, Adele Hodge. Pauline Bechtold, Willie Lindsey. Bermec© Fredrickson. Dorothea Kirk. Corky Buckman, Nelda Stoeckle. Pat Romaic CUSTODIANS FIRST ROW, loft to right: Frank Carzino. Bennie Bonini, Fred Pinqatore, A1 Lu- pon. Dave B;ork SECOND ROW, Roy Barnes. Joe Smogyi, Fred Haviland, Enock Shivley, Bob Turner (not pictured) BUS DRIVERS FIRST ROW. ; it to right: D. Bavillcr. Su.-hi. 3. Marat. K. Gillian. B, Phelps, D. Krumland. A. Davis. SECOND ROW: L. Narbarres, H. Osboun ner. B. Hodges. B. Hodges. L. Anight, F. Rubiai.c. P. Lone. CAFETERIA COOKS Elm Bjork, Coral Benson